https://github.com/prash5t/scrap-election-commission-nepal

Scraps voter information from Election Commission Nepal's website
https://github.com/prash5t/scrap-election-commission-nepal

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Scraps voter information from Election Commission Nepal's website

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/prash5t/scrap-election-commission-nepal
• Owner: prash5t
• Created: 2022-11-06T15:03:41.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-18T02:37:47.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-10T14:07:58.544Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: beautifulsoup, beautifulsoup4, csv, data-extraction, nepal
• Language: Python
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• Size: 267 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
## Get voter information of Nepal 🇳🇵

Python task to perform web scraping on voters information

i.e. publicly available on the website of Election Comission Nepal

##### Short Description

> Downloads voters information on bulk

> i.e. publicly available on the website of Election Comission Nepal

##### Instruction

> Provide argument values for **state**, **district**, **vdc_num**, **ward**

> and **reg_centre** in the **voter** variable of main.py file.

**To install necessary packages:**

```sh

pip install -r requirements.txt

```

**Line to modify arguments in main.py file:**

Example:

```sh

voters = extract_voters(state="1", district="4",

                        vdc_mun="5030", ward="3", reg_centre="2347")

```

##### Output

> Saves a CSV file to the **voters-warehouse** directory

> with the election center's name as the file name.

> Sample of saved files:

```sh

कन्काई-मावि-सुरुङ्ग.csv

जनचेतना-सामुदायिक-माध्यामिक-विद्यालय-गोहीखाडी.csv

```

##### Used Python packages

Uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

- Pandas

- Beautiful Soup

- Requests

##### Steps necessary to improve this project

The voter records are imported/downloaded/saved all at once,

but we must provide the arguments for each voting center manually and it is a hassle.

**Reason to provide argument values manually:**

While working on this project, I learned that there are over ten thousand election centers in Nepal, each with a unique address that combines state, district, municipality/vdc, ward, and registered center. I couldn't find a way to keep/map election center's record at a single place. And it is challenging to inspect elements and go through thousands of records to create a single file containing all of the election center's necessary arguments for retrieving all of the voter's records at once. As a result, in order to retrieve voter records from that specific election center, we must provide arguments manually.